The field marked in BLUE above can be extracted from the daily newspaper or the downloadable Form Guide, consisting of just one piece of data for each horse in their last race and without a computer, the selected numbers can be derived.

Thanks Tontonon but that is what the computer thought at 7.09 am on the Friday 13 October 2017 before the race.

Anyone who used that very simple seive on just about every Group race in the last couple of weeks would have gained enough profitable bets to take them through the year. It is mainly directed towards P.M's great unwashed, who he believes do not have the time nor the intellect to either Read The Form or to learn how to program a computer. This method only requires a pencil and paper plus a few minutes of their time even with a beer in their mits. As well it previously selected, amongst many others, a 100/1 M. Cup winner and a 100/1 Oaks winner. So it is not biased to just selecting the public favourite.

Thanks Tontonon but that is what the computer thought at 7.09 am on the Friday 13 October 2017 before the race.

Anyone who used that very simple seive on just about every Group race in the last couple of weeks would have gained enough profitable bets to take them through the year. It is mainly directed towards P.M's great unwashed, who he believes do not have the time nor the intellect to either Read The Form or to learn how to program a computer. This method only requires a pencil and paper plus a few minutes of their time even with a beer in their mits. As well it previously selected, amongst many others, a 100/1 M. Cup winner and a 100/1 Oaks winner. So it is not biased to just selecting the public favourite.

Thought it was obvious that you were posting last year's result peg.

Looking forward to this year's numbers if you would permit us to have a look

I will bet you the MC will have more posts than this topic although the OH controversy will surpass the MC discussions so technically the Everest topics will have more posts when added together.

Mate I wouldn't be so sure. The Melbourne Cup thread last year was very bare. A lot of people have moved on from this type of social media to Facebook, Twitter, etc. We are dinosaurs. Sadly this is the way the world is going.

This type of forum has been supplanted by the Comments section on digital newspapers. I have a subscription to The Australian and on important topics they get a thousand comments and you can tell it is the same sort of people who post here that are now over there.

The Australian appears to have removed comments from Everest stories as they often do when they detect social media "slamming".

I'm going to take a calculated risk and state that Redzel is not at the same place he was this time last year.

Agree with your comments on Trapeze Artist as well.

The other two placegetters from last year appear to be in fine form and given they have been placed over the track and distance you'd have to include them - Brave Smash and Vega Magic.

I am putting US Navy Flag in because I think our sprinting ranks are not the same as they were when Black Caviar, Takeover Target, Apache Cat, Miss Andretti, etc. were running around. The July Cup might just be the form race here.

Santa Ana Lane is a horse I have a lot of time for and he did win over the course and distance. And if you like him then you must concede Shoals and In Her Time as live chances.